Britain’s finance minister Rishi Sunak has ruled out more COVID-19 lockdowns, saying in a newspaper interview that there must not be a return to “significant economic restrictions.” In an interview with The Times of London published on Saturday, Sunak, the chancellor of the Exchequer, said that Britain is in a different phase of battling the pandemic due to the vaccine scheme and that the economy is the priority now. “I think we’re just in a very different place to where we were a year ago because of the vaccine,” he said. “There’s this enormous wave of protection, and that changes things. That’s our first line of defence.” “There’s a range of options that are available, and those are not options that involve lockdowns or very significant economic restrictions,” he added. The UK government lifted all CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus restrictions on July 19 in England. According to the Office …
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